Arie Meant So Much To So Many

Remembering a young man with a big smile and even bigger heart

- Laury Livsey

Last year playing on PGA TOUR Series-China, Malaysia’s Arie Irawan and caddie, his wife of three weeks, the former Marina Malek, traveled to Guilin, China, where Arie played well at that week’s tournament before eventually settling for a tie for fourth. Although Marina knew very little about golf, she was ready for the challenge of caddying, she loved who she was working for that week and her “boss” was more than happy with her performance.

“I’m so lucky I have my wife here this week,” Irawan said following his first round. “This is the first time Marina is traveling and caddying for me, and she’s also taking care of the food, so that makes it easy. It helps a lot having her out there. It just makes me more calm, and that’s why I didn’t make any bogeys today. She makes me happy.”